1. blame for what ? the hipocracy , the tortures, pedophile preists ? 2. not neccessarily a who. 3.what design ? 4. who said there was a purpose ? 5.children in a dark place, hoping a parent will save them from their fears 6.given ? by whom or what ? 7.dna stores 4 codes, It may have grown over time 8.why not.? some good things enhance survival. 9.yes, if we get caught by someone in a position to harm us. 10.wut ? most of these presume a specific unproven circumstance.
2) what makes you think it's a who? this is an idea i heard somewhere. can i claim that the universe was created by and extra-terrestrial named ted who blew up his apartment while trying to make beer?
3) didn't understand
4) you're talking about the meaning of life. i assert that it's to satisfy your conscience. long story for another day.
5) HUMAN NATURE!!! i simply believe that we should try to go past that and try to find the truth.
9) People are responsible for their actions in terms of their society. For instance, if I steal something I am held accountable by the person from whom I stole through the intermediary of our legal institutions. Some people aren't held accountable for their actions, though, and that's an unfortunate fact of life.
10) The First Cause Argument is guilty of special pleading, AND this is essentially a restatement of question #2. So... same answer really applies.
5) I'd say it's probably a side effect of our agency bias and theory of mind, which are good things generally. Our brains overdo it, though, which causes the illusion of what we call spirits.
6) We weren't "given" those things. Intelligence is advantageous to social species like us and gave us an edge. There are other species of comparable intelligence.
7) Adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. And it's not really information; just chemistry.
1) I respect the people, just not the religion. Religious people take their beliefs too personally, and that's very unhealthy. That won't stop me from saying I think gods are fairy tales.
2) There's no who. I don't know what created the universe or even that it was created or came into being at all.
3) Simple things naturally come from complex things. Look at stars, which can fuse helium and hydrogen into more complex heavy metals. All natural.
@ZineEllAbidine Because like theists we don't all think alike, the only thing we have in common is a belief that god(s) don't exist. You're obviously a Muslim but do you think you worship and think like a Jewish person does.
11. "Who created the cause?" That question makes no sense. Again I must just chalk this up to your obsession with insisting that all things must have a creator or instigator. This has never been proven.
9. "Good" and "Evil" are subjective and human labels. What is good and what is bad can change depending on context and who is considering the situation. That doesn't mean some entity had to "place" the idea of "good" in our minds.
10. Responsibility: of course we all can't do whatever we want. That is the function of society. Humans are social animals. We have risen to dominance on the planet because of our ability to work together. That couldn't have happened without regulation by others.
If that were the case then we would all still believe in faeries, unicorns and dragons.
7. Again you say we were "given" a mind and intelligence. This assumes a "giver" instead of just having evolved complex brain functions and activity due to natural selection.
8. You are obsessed with the idea that things can only happen by an intelligent entity causing them or "putting them there." This is not proven. Does seaweed wash up on the shore because "god" wills it, or is it just the wind and waves?
5. The "purpose" of life is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. For me, the purpose of life lies in each individual. We make our own purpose - this is governed by our intellect, our privilege, our ability and our desire.
6. The almost innate desire for worship in humans is easily explained by human evolution (particularly of the brain) and the need to explain away the unknown. However, the musings and ideas of people without basis in evidence or proof does not prove anything.
1. I'm not sure what you mean by "blame religious people." Blame them for what?
2. Your question assumes there is or was a need for a creator, or even for a process of creation. This is not proven at all. Consider that the universe never was created - that it simply is.
3. Same false assumption. You're assuming some "thing" HAD to have created energy and matter. That is not proven.
4. Complexity: the Universe was not always complex. It has become more complex over billions of years.
...I don't think most people who do bad things in name of their religion do them because they would be evil, but because they are missinformed by their beliefs.
“Religion. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” -- Steven Weinberg
1. I don't blaim people per se, but rather any kind of dogmatism, theistic or not. Beliefs inform actions and actions have consequences not only to people themselves but other people as well. If you believe something to be true that's not, it can inform you to do something that's harmful for others without even realizing it yourself.
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” -- René Descartes
2. what do you mean WHO created the universe? it doesnt have to be someone. you have to realize that we believe the universe is the only level. we dont believe in some spiritual terrain.
3. this is retarded. YES, turn to religion because YOU PERSONALLY dont understand.
4. there is no purpose. just because you are here doesnt mean there has to be deeper meaning than evolution. we are here by chance. final.
6. Because these greatly improve survival chances.
7. Again evolution provides the answer. Mutations happen and although most of them are disadvantageous some are beneficial. Natural selection then sieves out the beneficial ones and thereby increases the information content of the genome.
8. Because we are a social species. Humans are not the only species that helps members of its own group.
9. The concept of a society prevents us from doing what we want.
The question ‘who created the universe’ is pointless. The universe isn’t created. Quantum mechanics shows that something can come from nothing. Assuming god created the universe just brings up the question of who created god. God is a product of human imagination just like dragons, wizards, and fairies.
Why do you assume that anybody in the world knows at this point in time how the universe came to be? There may be a creator, by the way, but if there is, that is absolutely no reason to assume that it has been described by any religion. Also, your god faces the same dilema as energy. You want me to tell you where energy came from? I don't know. But how is this question different than asking you where god came from? Actually the difference is that energy is less complex and so easier to accept
matter can not be created nor destroyed... scientist have proven this time and time again.. i do understand how hard it is to comprehend HOW did it come about, but it didnt... just like your "god", its always been there
"1. Religion has caused more death than Atheism... BY FAR!"
NOT SO! religion teaches to love your neighbour and do not murder
Any one that does not listen to that is an atheist since he does not believe by his actions that there is a GD. Hence.....all murders al done by atheist!
@Elechkite Have you ever heard of the Crusades? Those were fought between two religious groups and were fought over religion, there so far have been NO wars that have been specifically fought by an group of atheists strictly from their beliefs and ideology.
@alvdude we can go in circles if you wish, BUT religion teaches lo love and give. The ten Comandments are G-ds laws. people can use religion for their own selfish reasons but that is also a form of atheism.
I call atheism any believe that does not conform to the will of GD. A sinner is a temporary atheist!
@Elechkite I'd enjoy having a little argument, it's fun ;) but anyway...That may be true but the difference is that they THOUGHT that they were fighting for their religion and were killing each other for their religion, even if they were 'technically' sinners. So their religions (for lack of a better word) fueled the wars and caused widespread death.
@alvdude yes I hear you point but anyone can use any excuse to commit a crime. So its not the religious values that makes them do harm it is their own desires , so the blame comes down to the fraities of humanity religious or not. My religion teaches me to control those weakneses,
@Elechkite Yes people have used religion specifically as an excuse and I agree that it isn't what made them do it, but I feel you're getting away from the main point that atheism has caused more death than religion which depending on what you call an atheist can be true or false. What the term 'atheist' has become these days has become someone who believes that there is no god, rather than someone who simply doesn't have a religion (sorry if that doesn't make much sense but I'm not sure how els
Who created god? If nothing can exist without being created, than something had to create him. (I'll give you a hint- the things that created god looks a lot like you and me.) Saying god is uncreated is just as plausible as saying energy wasn't created.
7. It comes from billions of years of accumulating information regarding genetic change. Failed DNA died out, hence "survival of the fittest".
8. Because being "good" to each other increases the chances of survival for that species. (allow me to remind you that the old testament shows god to be evil)
1. I don't blame religious people, I blame religious people who feel they need to force their religion onto others. Religion has no part in government and always ends in disater. Just look at the middle east.
2. We don't know. The difference bt atheist and religious types are that we do not claim to know. We do not use ancient poetry to claim knowledge of such an unknowable subject. We look to the scientific method for determining what is actual and what is superstion....
Those questions have been answered ad nauseum. Sorry but it take a lot more than a YT response or even a video to answer them. Start reading some Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins.
Every one of your questions that asked "Who..." is wrong. That is a logical fallacy called "begging the question". By asking "who", you are making an assumption about the answer, namely that it is a "who".
Assume for a moment that you are wrong and that there is no god. How far could you get asking something like "who created the universe"? The question could not be answered.
7 DNA is a self replicating molecule which is composed of basic amino acids. It has been demonstrated in a lab that amino acids, exposed to radiation, can assemble a double helix DNA structure.
8 We evolved a 'good side' out of a desire to be treated fairly. not from religion.
9 We are responsible for what we do. you can do whatever you want. be prepared to pay for it socially.
10 No one created the cause... if thats what your asking.
1.if we do it's because we involve ourselves in religious debates and all people tend to finger-point
2. we don't know with material evidence neither dose any religion other than the ink in their books maybe there is a god but how can some just know him and his will but others don't?
3. I'm sorry could you rephrase that please?
4. That also we don't know off instinct is reproduction
5. it's not natural it's just comforting to attribute strange things to a higher power
@Hunkisthecoolest 7. it's just in all living things they come together in this way from atoms and energy ect.
8.If you want to get philosophical there isn't just what we say to describe a certain aspect that wants to be helpful
9.personally yes (to me) we don't have a god to fess up to only ourselves and the people around us.
10.The cause behind religion? Well it can be multi purpose keep in mind there are multiple authors motive could all be different motives. there would be more but word limit
9)Do you really need an answer to that? Off course we are.You receive what you give..you cannot simply go beat someone and expect that he will not beat you or others on his behalf.
10) I didn't understand your 10th question I am sorry.
6) Again with the 'given' and 'someone put it' can you atleast for a second forget about your magical sky daddy who is not 'universal' for every human as you said.Just go to your local library and go to the biology section and find some books on evolution good luck.
7)Do I really have to repeat myself? Just because you think it is doesn't make it so i find it to be very simple really.
8)Do you think water's good? Yes? Than what do you think of tsunamis?
@MuslimView I am going to continue because i find your questions genuine and not meant to mock.At this point i am thinking that you have to read some books and do some reaserch but nevermind i am bored.
5)That's a really complicated but i will try to cover it.Some things are unexplainable and putting god there to fill in the blanks i see you find very comfortable and easy.Lightning was considered magical and godly why isn't it now? Because of science.Or maybe it's designed to control humans?
@MuslimView1) You are making a bold statement and not backing it up with even a bullshit example.
2) We don't know but you assuming it's a magical sky daddy by saying 'who' amuses me
3)Sophokles 'humans are a measure of everything'.This quote should pretty much answer your question but i am going to continue further.Just because it's complicated to your pea brain doesn't mean it really is.4) What is the purpose of life? By that you mean why does life excist? The purpose of life is to have life.
The reason why belief in a deity is so wide spread is because people fear death, and to cope with that fear people have invented cosmic beings that look after us and give us life after death.
@kubush Yes or maybe to fill in the blanks in our small minds or maybe it's all a giant conspiracy designed to control thought.We may never know for sure.
1universe even had a beginning,created don't think so2god to make the universe,would have to be more complex3time and energy are forever(us= universe)5god is part of the universe or not,is=us if not just a delusion6pick up a object and drop it,it will fall,play that forever,god wont stop it7god doing the super natural,god could make superman real?8babies all atheist 9god came from nothing,made the whole universe,what would he made everything from himself10EVERYTHING is a delusion all (1)thing
1. They don't. Both sides gives arguments, it is on a person to decide if it's offensive. 2. Why suppose 'who' it could be 'what'. I don't know. 3. It isn't. 4. Life itself. 5. Fear of death and unknown. 6. To improve are chances of survival. (Evolution) 7. Natural selection. 8. To improve species to survive. (Evolution) Cause/effect of our actions. 9. Cause/effect. 10. I don't know. 10 honest answers with no god :)
1) You're an embarrasement to the species. 2) We may have an answer one day but it won't come from theism 3) Is it complicated or are we just stupid 4) See #2 5) Fear of death, someone to blame, universal father figure etc 6) Given? You're making assumptions 7) Incredibly complex interactions between matter over millenia 8) You may as well ask why there's a bad side. Altruism is often benificial to the individual 9) Who else would be? 10) Who? More assumptions
On question 2: The universe wasn't created, it always existed. If God created the universe, then who created God? If God doesn't need a creator, then why does the universe need a creator?
2. Who says it's a "who" or that the universe was created?
3. What design of creation?
4. Why must there be a "purpose"?
5. It was evolutionarily beneficial to follow tribal leaders, and this evolutionary trait has been superimposed on the ultimate conceptual tribal leader each sect of society could collectively conceive.
9) Both. Ignoring physical restrictions for the moment, people are capable of performing a wide variety of acts, but are responsible to each other for the consequences of those acts.
10) Again, the assumption of personal agents is both predictable and unfounded. The cosmological argument for a god fails because: a) not all events require causes (see virtual particles), b) an infinite chain of causes is conceivable and plausible, and c) even if it isn't, this "first cause" would require a cause
7) Once the first imperfectly self-replicating molecule (perhaps RNA) formed, the information was a consequence of natural selection of different molecules which survived and reproduced better. Also, either information can arise spontaneously, or the physical properties of things and their locations do not count as information.
8) Cooperative communities early in animal development fared better than lone individuals.
4) There is no objective purpose; even if a god exists, his opinion on the matter, though more easily enforced, is not objective. My purpose is to learn more about the world and then pass that knowledge to future generations.
5) We seek intention in everything, and carrying this too far has had a survival advantage in the past.
6) These things were not given, but simply exist, and the reason they arose is that early hominids who could think and plan gained a substantial advantage.
1) Blame them for what? I don't really blame the people so much as the patterns of thought which lead them uncritically to their brand of theism.
2) "Who" implies something personal, which is an unwarranted assumption. Also, the standard model for the Big Bang is that energy came first, at least after that event.
3) Simple laws can lead to emergent complicated behavior simply due to the amount of energy and matter in the universe and the various forces by which they interact.
8) Now that is interresting. As we are herd animals we do anything for the greater good for our herd. (Society, country or your town) To make the herd work like a well oiled machine people need boundaries. Therefore we made up good (benifitial to the community) and evil (bad for the community). If everyone would be killing eachother the disease named humanity would stop to be.
7) Well when a man and a woman love eachother... They make a baby which will have shared genes of the man and the women. I don't know why it is there or how it has come into existance. Again this is a why are we here question and i can tell you that no one knows. Deluding yourself that you do know is foolish. Religious people like to put a claim on the truth. While using no logic to support their claims.
4) There is no purpose to life except for being alive. That is all. You will never find out what the purpose is to life. No one will, and making something up and deluding yourself that that story is true is just stupid.
5) Because we are herd animals. We like to follow a leader because most people aren't leaders and don't like to think for themselves.
6) Evolution, some animals have claws or venom. We have a enlarged cranium. Intelligence is our weapon given by nature.
1) Religious people are drones. Which will do anything if you can manipulate them properly. See Adolf Hitler, he manipulated the underbelly feelings among catholics to incite hatred against Jews. Religion only brings death and destruction.
2) Who says it was created? We don't have all the answers but 99,99999999% chance it wasn't a god from one of the theists their holy books.
hey MV, how ya doing? 1) i personally don't blame theists for anything in particular, but the skeptic comunity in general tends to be critical of literal interpratations of scripture. i.e. some jews believe that god promised them palistine, this is a problem becaue there is no supporting evedince for this outside of scripture. 2) i don't assume a "who" 3) simple things become more complicated over time. 4) our purposes are subjective, the purpose of life in general is to survive and perpetuate
@QuestionReadLearn 5) well, i don't, but we all want to understand our existance. 6) we evolved intellgence becaue it is advantageous to our survival. 7) self replicating protiens 8) becaue it helps us survive. 9) yes, we are responsible for our actions. 10) again, i don't assume a "who". thanks for asking, i hope this helps. i also recomend reading "the end of faith" by sam harris. he's got some much better answers than i. the audio book is here on youtube. take it easy.
Hello, i'm doing good thank you for asking. i hope you are doing good as well.
1) first i must admit that question 1 was too general. what i meant was that, why don't they (Atheists) respect the belief of believers if they want religious people to respect Atheism? EX: why do Atheists usually insult God? 2) why do you think it's not God, while everything we can touch or feel indicates his existence? 3) why? why do things evolve in a systematic way? 4) then why was there life at all?
@MuslimView i am. life is good right now. lets go for #2 1st; while everything that exists is quite amazing, it doesn't indicate god's hand. to say that existance is evidence of god is a flawed arguement because i could use the same arguement to support any view. say, the order we see here is evidence that advanced extraterrestrials must have designed it. imho #3 has always been the best argeument for god. it's not evidence, but it is a great mystery. life does have the appearance of modivation.
@QuestionReadLearn y do living things become more complicated and strive to survive? there is just not evough information to say y. your guess is as good as mine there. same answer for #4, but y shouldn't there be? i feel that's a bit like saying y should my cat be black as opposed to being any other color. the universe exists. life exists. unfortunatly that's all we can really say about the subject. #1 is complicated. some of it is because the internet allows people to be dicks with anonymity.
@QuestionReadLearn if u post a video of your baby laughing, every 3rd comment will be "ur baby's ugly. fag." with that out of the way, most athiests value logic in discourse, so we, in general, believe that a course of action needs a reasonable amount of evidence to be taken. it's like my zionism example. jews don't get to have palistine because god promised it in a holy book. that has to be off the table because it cant be proven. beliefs that negatively effect people need to be validated.
@MuslimView #1 in more detail - I personally don't care whether religious people respect me for my atheism. I don't go out of my way to insult religious people per se, but it does offend me when fruitcakes (endtimers, zionists, twelvers, witch doctors etc) use these fantasies to cause actual harm and misery to actual people.
2,3 and 4 are philosophical questions and none need 'magical sky being' as an answer.
I have a question - Why do you feel the need to believe in a god at all?
@MuslimView 1) There is a difference between respecting people and respecting ideas/beliefs. Many ideas and beliefs are wrong and some are just plain stupid and they are unworthy of respect. I do respect the sovereignty of people's minds and they're rights to hold whatever belief they wish. There is no God to insult. 2) Asking "who" is a loaded question. 3) Things don't evolve in any systematic way. They simply follow the laws of nature. 4) We create our own purpose.
@MuslimView 6)we were not given sentience, we developed intelligence to help us communicate with each other, and to outwit nature for our continued existence.
7)Google the HGP. not even science is 100% sure, but we're trying to find out.
8) morality is a social construct. without being kind to one-another our ancestors would have been expelled from groups, and left to fend and die on their own.
9)due to the 'conscience' we have all developed in our sentient mind, we feel mental trauma.
@MuslimView 10) we have one cause as a species. its not mind-blowing. it's not worthy as a response from the great computer in 'hitch-hikers guide'. It's boring, and unbecoming. it is survival. we each live to continue our species.
sorry for all the posts, but i am an atheist, and i figured i would answer your questions logically.
@MuslimView Because in some parts of the world certain racial groups are legally defined as Muslim and it is constitutionally illegal to leave Islam for another religion or to be an atheist.
Example of such a country: Malaysia
Example of such a person: me, an ex-Muslim atheist.
All your questions are answered by the All Powerful Uncaused Alien Being XRSFET, from the planet OYE89 outside this Universe. He created all things. I have never seen him but I feel him in my heart and my faith gives me comfort.
I'm sure you believe me even though I have no evidence to present to you relative to his actual existence except DNA is complex and He is very intelligent and powerful but alas can't be sensed because He's outside our universe.
These questions show a very fundamental lack of understanding of scientific concepts (On the creation and existence questions). Does not comprehend the idea of eternal state of matter and energy, and is fulfilling confirmation bias over and over again. He also does not understand the gradual accumulation of information through natural selection and other means.
On the moral questions do not disprove atheism. Just because you do not like the morality, doesn't make it false. Subjective morality
@Andreastij 5) We do not have a desire to worship. We do however, have a desire to feel protected. And in your case, your imaginary friends requires of you that you worship him.
6) Evolution. To have an advantage over other, stupider species.
7) Evolution...
8) Because being good helps us to survive. I help you, you help me. Dawkins has a nice chapter on altruism in "The God Delusion". Read it.
9) We are responsible to one another. Because what we do to others might be done to us.
@Andreastij 10) There is no cause... Why are you repeating question 4?
Okay, your questions are not evidence of God, by definition questions can never be, answers can. And the answers you think are true come from an imaginary entity for which there is no proof (i.e. they are man-made, just as my answers are). Your questions reveal a great lack of knowledge of especially evolution and biology (but also psychology, philosophy and sociology). I would suggest you read up on this and then PM me.
P.s.: I really recommend you to see 2 youtube animation videos (Open mindness and Critical Thinking) and the 3 Zeitgeist movies. Pay attention to krishnamurti words in zeitgeist films.
I think Spirituality is a very good thing. I think the more we evolve, the more Spiritual we will be, though it will be a kind of spirituality based only on truth (even truths that we already don’t know) and that make you “see” in a bigger angle… not a spirituality that shrinks your angle.
If my job was to leader a whole world of people and I have to choose between "insert" religion or don't use it, I surely choose to use religion and have people more satisfied, with fear of doing bad things to each other and being punished by God because of that, and with a more closed mind so they don't think too much and question my power and my rights to try to control them...
I Hope, by now you have a different view of religion... That's the most important. You may follow Believing, because believe cause good feelings, and because believe is a true feeling, but you have to be aware that Religion is not just what you think you are, and is really based not on critical thinking and also an effective way to control masses. It's the best way....
8) Because that good nature help people to be happy (we’re happier if we’re not just egocentric). I think that is that good nature that could make us get some equilibrium in this unbalanced world. The good don’t have to be linked with religion.
7) There’s lot of information about that. You could choose between the easiest way (accept that it is God’s hand), or the hardest (investigate, study)… If you don’t want to do the hardest, you shouldn’t just accept the other hipotesis.
6) Science explains it: our evolution form monkeys, the bipodal position that allow us to have our hands free, and to start to create instruments and evolve our brains. There are many documentaries about that. You’re considering we’re the only animal that thinks, and that’s not true. Peter Singer is scientist that talks about it.
I think we should do the minimum that we could to achieve that, even if it not happens in our times… Believe in me that it could be much more gratifying to do good to many people, than to do good only for yourself, and that it could be even more gratifying to do good to a healthy and good Community. Believe that if the world could be like that you would really find Happiness. It’s an Utopia, though that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to approximate our world to that. That is made educating
4) I think at this moment the purpose of human life should be obtain a better world, a sustainable world with future, not this one. We need to start to be organize and to accept each other, all the countries, all the cultures, all the nations as a community, as a sole organism in a good relation to our home - Earth, a finite place...
The miracle of the universe... I just Don't Know and I feel very happy with that :) The most beautiful words to me are those from Socrates, I think you would know. We just should insist in trying to learn more and more in a sustainable way.
3 - I think the design of creation is not so complicated. I think it's a miracle... The only one. But to say that it's a miracle doesn't mean it have to be made by an entity. It really doesn't matter. And if it were, you will never be sure so you shouldn't just accept it... The feeling you feel inside you is not just "the answer"... Our mind can do so many beautiful things like that feeling, but is your thought, your feeling, not God...
2) I don't know... The Big Bang theory is the most aceptable theory. Cientists have even recreated the Big Bang at a small scale few years ago. But if it isn't the right theory so we should try to investigate more, not be satisfacted because "someone of my religion told me that it was an God". We have to be open-minded and desire to grow, to know more and more... That's the magic, do not be satisfied. Altough as you see, religion dificults it.
1) Because they know their thoughts are stronger once they're based in more solid facts and most of them use a more critical thinking... Because they feel that they should make you "see". However I think they shouldn't be arrogant, and should respect. However you shouldn't discredit all the atheist (and the idea that there is no God) because of the arrongance of some.
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
monkey metaphor (based on studies of GR Stephenson in 1967 – “Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys”):
“Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
4.Sorry, I didn't see the description box. Life in itself has no purpose. It just happened. You may say the chances of it just happening are pretty low, but who are we to say this is the first "try", if you can call something not being done by anyone a try, at life ? And again, low chances don't mean impossibility. But I think you can give yourself a purpose in life. If your purpose is Allah, good for you. Mine are my family, my friends, and I have to admit, melted chocolate. الوداع يا صديقي .
10.Like I said in question 2., I don't know. Not knowing how to explain something doesn't mean anything in itself. You cannot rationally explain to me where god came from. Does that mean god doesn't exist ?
8.Because of evolution, again. We needed to be able to do good things to be accepted by others, to survive, so we evolved into having a good side. Other species have one too. Ever heard of a lioness who nearly died trying to save a baby monkey she had come to love ?
9.Every one is physically able to do nearly whatever he wants, but humans have created courtroooms and judges to ensure boundaries would not be crossed (yeah I know, didn't work out perfectly).
5.Because it feels good for humans to have something ruling it from above. Because most humans want a sense of purpose, a way of thinking they would have existed no matter what.
6.Evolution. We needed a mind to survive, and we evolved to have one. Some species didn't and died.
7.No, we don't know someone has to put it there. The mutation of human genom has been proved. We get genes from our ancestors, and evolve by having them adapt. Then again, this has been scientifically proved.
1.Because most religions tell us we'll go to some kind of hell for not believing. That is a clear attempt at forcing beliefs on others.
2.I don't know. Wisdom is not to know, but t know you don't know. Socrate. And may I ask a similiar question, where did god come from ?
3.Complexity and low chances are no proof. Low chances don't mean no chances. We never said it would give the same result if the whole thing restarted.
7) the complex info in the DNA, comes from a large list of mistakes during the duplication of this molecule. actrually , most of DNA (nearly 95%) is useful, scientists haven´t discovered it´s function yet
8) because beings with consciense (like us) can decide what is better to survive, and if it is good or bad, it depends on who is watching
1)because religion is a serius disease in tihis world. Actually religions have caused more damage to the world than us ( crusades, yihads, inquisition, 9 /11 ... etc)
2)the question is how., and for you : who created god then?
3)evolution, it have been a long time since we were a single cell
4)why does life need a porpouse anyway?
5) because it feels alone, and need someone ( or something) who give it support
7) from addition of information through mutative processes.
8) good is subjective, what is good for one person is not good for another. Also, if there is an all powerful, omnibenevolent god, why is there a bad side?
9) we are responsible for what we do, but we are free to try to do anything we want.
10) loaded question, there doesn't need to be a who behind every reaction.
Pretty much every question here is just based on assumptions your family inherited and passed on to you from a book that was written by a person in a time when telescopes and microscopes did not exist. That's why I don't and will not believe what you believe. We know more now, and we assumed things then.
@muslimview and i bet another reason atheists dnt believe in god is because god wasnt there during the big bang world war 1 world war 2 slavery when innocent people were getting slaughtered by maniacs reply back to my comments with yor opinions on them man take care
@muslimview and btw i am a believer in a higher power or some sort of god but i definitely dont believe in these religions, especially the abrahamic reigions as it teaches you false things in their holy books. e.g. the quran says the earth is flat the bible says the earth is only 6000 years old and the torah bible and quran say we came from adam and eve. all these have been proven false and i never took any of those verses from those holy books out of context. i read them carefully.
@muslimview atheists simply believe that there isnt a supernatural magical space god who apparently got created out of nowhere. you say someone must have created the universe which is a fair point if you realise someone must have created god too. atheists simply believe that there is more of a chance that atoms and simple elements were formed due to natural selection which later mutiplied and evolved than a sef created magical man in the sky who created te universe and is watching whats goingon
1) The same reason people blame anyone. They've done something that means they deserve to be blamed.
2) Nonsensical question. No-one created the universe, because as far as we know without the universe, no-one can exist.
3) There is no 'design'. Design infers an intelligent agency to put it there. (In which case, you would have to ask why that intelligent agency's 'design' is very complicated.)
4) The way you use the word 'purpose' infers a creator - there is no such thing.
7) The way you use information in the video does not apply to what we know about DNA.
8) Otherwise we would have become extinct millennia ago. Social beings require empathy to survive.
9) Yes. There's a little thing called 'law', among other things.
10) What cause? We know of no such thing. Also, causes do not require creators. They require some sort of causation which may or may not be a being of some sort.
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Adolf Hitler { Atheist } : Killed 40 million Human
Joseph Stalin { Atheist } : Killed 20 million Human
Vladimir Lenin { Atheist } Killed 200,000 Human
Mao Tse Tung { Atheist } Killed 30 million Human
Kim-Il-Sung { Atheist }: Killed 4 million Human
Slobodan Miloshevich { Atheist }: Killed 300,000 Human
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6 & 7:- The brain and DNA has evolved over millions of years and we still don't understand it all yet.
8:- If there was no good side we wouldn't have a bad side as we need both to survive.
9:- Yes and enforced by the laws of the land you live in.
10:- Not all atheists think like this, I don't have a cause, I just don't belive god(s) exist.
MrSitemaster2 2 weeks ago
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@MuslimView
1:- Theists also blame other religions.
2:- Science hasn't found the answer yet and it may never find it. Also who says it was created maybe it has always been around like your god(s)?
3:- It was been going on for billions of years and one day it won't look so complicated to us as we gain more knowledge.
4:- Like other animlas to re-produce and die anything else is up to you.
5:- If there's something we don't understand it's easily explained away with the use of god(s).
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You were indoctrinated as a kid. Most likely you are not capable of thinking for self. Your arguments based off god of the gaps, and ignorant.
lp000028 2 months ago
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SqueakerAlpha 3 months ago
7) again, e.t. named ted
8) again human nature. animals do this too it's not just us. religion is simply a pride issue. we think we're better than everyone else.
9) you're talking about free will. i don't believe it exists, it's simply cause and effect.
10) and finally, who created this cause? again why are you assuming it's a who?
quantummechanics1997 4 months ago
1) what are we blaming on you?
2) what makes you think it's a who? this is an idea i heard somewhere. can i claim that the universe was created by and extra-terrestrial named ted who blew up his apartment while trying to make beer?
3) didn't understand
4) you're talking about the meaning of life. i assert that it's to satisfy your conscience. long story for another day.
5) HUMAN NATURE!!! i simply believe that we should try to go past that and try to find the truth.
6) who is giving it?
quantummechanics1997 4 months ago
9) People are responsible for their actions in terms of their society. For instance, if I steal something I am held accountable by the person from whom I stole through the intermediary of our legal institutions. Some people aren't held accountable for their actions, though, and that's an unfortunate fact of life.
10) The First Cause Argument is guilty of special pleading, AND this is essentially a restatement of question #2. So... same answer really applies.
bicokun 4 months ago
5) I'd say it's probably a side effect of our agency bias and theory of mind, which are good things generally. Our brains overdo it, though, which causes the illusion of what we call spirits.
6) We weren't "given" those things. Intelligence is advantageous to social species like us and gave us an edge. There are other species of comparable intelligence.
7) Adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. And it's not really information; just chemistry.
8) No social animal could survive without it.
bicokun 4 months ago
1) I respect the people, just not the religion. Religious people take their beliefs too personally, and that's very unhealthy. That won't stop me from saying I think gods are fairy tales.
2) There's no who. I don't know what created the universe or even that it was created or came into being at all.
3) Simple things naturally come from complex things. Look at stars, which can fuse helium and hydrogen into more complex heavy metals. All natural.
4) It depends on whose purpose and whose life.
bicokun 4 months ago
1/Blame for....?
2/Why who?Who created the Himalayas? Who created the sun? Answer not who but WHAT. Tectonics and gravity respectively.
3/The universe has been evolving for 14 billion yrs and the earth (and life on it for 3ish billion) Man has been around for only 200,000 yrs
4/Why should there be a purpose? If you need a purpose find one
5/Ignorance & fear of the unknown
6/We werent given it. 200,000 yrs of evolution "gave" it us
7/Blimey!!
8/Evolution
9/responsible
10/Why who!
pinball1970 5 months ago
why theres no two atheists are agreing with the same answers ?
ZineEllAbidine 5 months ago 8
@ZineEllAbidine Because atheism isn't a religion so we don't have some unified dogma of answers to questions on which we all agree?
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@ZineEllAbidine Because like theists we don't all think alike, the only thing we have in common is a belief that god(s) don't exist. You're obviously a Muslim but do you think you worship and think like a Jewish person does.
MrSitemaster2 2 weeks ago
1) We don't
2) It doesn't have to be "who", and nobody knows. If a god created the universe, who created the god?
3) because it's been evolving for 3.5 billion years
4) Everyone should have his own purpose
5) Fear and the inability to explain things
6) Evolution
7) DNA doesn't store information, DNA is information
8) Because it's mutually beneficial for us to help others
9) Yes, otherwise there would be Anarchy
10) What caused the creator?
Seregthol1 5 months ago
1.)Alot of religions have mass murder and fear in them.
2.)who created god?
3.)deformed babies does not look like intelligent design.
4.) LOVE :)
5.)blind obedience ,dogma,and brainwash
6.)how do you know it was "given"?
7.)lol
8.)why is there suffering IF there is a allpowerful alloving god?
9.)karma ,cause and effect
10.)what is the cause of god?
DarkBeauty1989 5 months ago
11. "Who created the cause?" That question makes no sense. Again I must just chalk this up to your obsession with insisting that all things must have a creator or instigator. This has never been proven.
Pandonodrim 5 months ago
9. "Good" and "Evil" are subjective and human labels. What is good and what is bad can change depending on context and who is considering the situation. That doesn't mean some entity had to "place" the idea of "good" in our minds.
10. Responsibility: of course we all can't do whatever we want. That is the function of society. Humans are social animals. We have risen to dominance on the planet because of our ability to work together. That couldn't have happened without regulation by others.
Pandonodrim 5 months ago
If that were the case then we would all still believe in faeries, unicorns and dragons.
7. Again you say we were "given" a mind and intelligence. This assumes a "giver" instead of just having evolved complex brain functions and activity due to natural selection.
8. You are obsessed with the idea that things can only happen by an intelligent entity causing them or "putting them there." This is not proven. Does seaweed wash up on the shore because "god" wills it, or is it just the wind and waves?
Pandonodrim 5 months ago
5. The "purpose" of life is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. For me, the purpose of life lies in each individual. We make our own purpose - this is governed by our intellect, our privilege, our ability and our desire.
6. The almost innate desire for worship in humans is easily explained by human evolution (particularly of the brain) and the need to explain away the unknown. However, the musings and ideas of people without basis in evidence or proof does not prove anything.
Pandonodrim 5 months ago
1. I'm not sure what you mean by "blame religious people." Blame them for what?
2. Your question assumes there is or was a need for a creator, or even for a process of creation. This is not proven at all. Consider that the universe never was created - that it simply is.
3. Same false assumption. You're assuming some "thing" HAD to have created energy and matter. That is not proven.
4. Complexity: the Universe was not always complex. It has become more complex over billions of years.
Pandonodrim 5 months ago
...I don't think most people who do bad things in name of their religion do them because they would be evil, but because they are missinformed by their beliefs.
“Religion. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” -- Steven Weinberg
Mornys 6 months ago
1. I don't blaim people per se, but rather any kind of dogmatism, theistic or not. Beliefs inform actions and actions have consequences not only to people themselves but other people as well. If you believe something to be true that's not, it can inform you to do something that's harmful for others without even realizing it yourself.
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” -- René Descartes
Mornys 6 months ago
1. you seem to be paranoid about that.
2. i don't know. maybe nobody. but i know who didn't.
3. our limited understanding doesn't affect reality.
4. there are several aims in my life. i keep on living cause it's better than non-existence.
5. lack of rational and critical thinking. indoctrination.
6. evolution.
7. evolution/biochemistry/trial and error.
8. social intelligence/empathy.
9. morals.
10. "cause and effect" ultimately fails. therefore your religious view also fails.
CaptainObvious0000 6 months ago
1) Blame for what?
2) Who say's it was a who?
3) Because it's been evolving for 3.5 billion years.
4) No purpose further then the purpose you assign to your own life
5) Fear of death and the unknown
6) Who says we were given intelligence?
7) DNA contains no information
8) Empathy
9) Not sure what you mean
10) Again, assuming their is a who.
maskofsan1ty 6 months ago 20
5. 2/2 because you cant accept theres no deeper meaning.
6. it wasnt given to us. we evolved into it. because you dont get it doesnt mean it doesnt make sense -.-
7. EVOLUTION. just because youre personally too uneducated to understand doesnt mean it doesnt make sense.
8. out of chance. same reason there is a cruel side.
9. ...vague much?
10. what is the cause!? there is no cause. crappy troll.
7Trisanaty7 6 months ago
1. no atheist organisation has started a war.
2. what do you mean WHO created the universe? it doesnt have to be someone. you have to realize that we believe the universe is the only level. we dont believe in some spiritual terrain.
3. this is retarded. YES, turn to religion because YOU PERSONALLY dont understand.
4. there is no purpose. just because you are here doesnt mean there has to be deeper meaning than evolution. we are here by chance. final.
5. because you need to feel important.
7Trisanaty7 6 months ago
1. Because religion has done so much evil to humankind.
2. See earlier response.
3. The complexity of life is explained by millions of years of evolution.
4. Would the existence of a magic skydaddy give meaning to life? Life if meaningful because you enjoy it.
5. For many psychological reasons. See: "Why do Intelligent People still Believe in Religion?"
189643478 6 months ago
6. Because these greatly improve survival chances.
7. Again evolution provides the answer. Mutations happen and although most of them are disadvantageous some are beneficial. Natural selection then sieves out the beneficial ones and thereby increases the information content of the genome.
8. Because we are a social species. Humans are not the only species that helps members of its own group.
9. The concept of a society prevents us from doing what we want.
10. Faulty logic, see 2.
189643478 6 months ago
The question ‘who created the universe’ is pointless. The universe isn’t created. Quantum mechanics shows that something can come from nothing. Assuming god created the universe just brings up the question of who created god. God is a product of human imagination just like dragons, wizards, and fairies.
189643478 6 months ago
1. I don't blame everything on religion, but it IS an effective shield for people who try and defend their actions.
2. No one.
3. Life is complex because it evolved from simpler life forms.
4. I don't know. For me, it's my art.
5. It allows a person to be part of a larger group and alleviates them from responsibility.
6. Because we were born with such a mind.
7. DNA is comprised of just four simple sugars.
8. Why shouldn't there be?
9. Yes.
10. No one.
FrankLightheart 6 months ago
Question 2: Why "who"?
criskity 6 months ago
Why do you assume that anybody in the world knows at this point in time how the universe came to be? There may be a creator, by the way, but if there is, that is absolutely no reason to assume that it has been described by any religion. Also, your god faces the same dilema as energy. You want me to tell you where energy came from? I don't know. But how is this question different than asking you where god came from? Actually the difference is that energy is less complex and so easier to accept
fotwunny 7 months ago
matter can not be created nor destroyed... scientist have proven this time and time again.. i do understand how hard it is to comprehend HOW did it come about, but it didnt... just like your "god", its always been there
zazzeyzaz 7 months ago
"1. Religion has caused more death than Atheism... BY FAR!"
NOT SO! religion teaches to love your neighbour and do not murder
Any one that does not listen to that is an atheist since he does not believe by his actions that there is a GD. Hence.....all murders al done by atheist!
Elechkite 7 months ago
@Elechkite Have you ever heard of the Crusades? Those were fought between two religious groups and were fought over religion, there so far have been NO wars that have been specifically fought by an group of atheists strictly from their beliefs and ideology.
alvdude 7 months ago
@alvdude we can go in circles if you wish, BUT religion teaches lo love and give. The ten Comandments are G-ds laws. people can use religion for their own selfish reasons but that is also a form of atheism.
I call atheism any believe that does not conform to the will of GD. A sinner is a temporary atheist!
Elechkite 7 months ago
@Elechkite I'd enjoy having a little argument, it's fun ;) but anyway...That may be true but the difference is that they THOUGHT that they were fighting for their religion and were killing each other for their religion, even if they were 'technically' sinners. So their religions (for lack of a better word) fueled the wars and caused widespread death.
alvdude 7 months ago
@alvdude yes I hear you point but anyone can use any excuse to commit a crime. So its not the religious values that makes them do harm it is their own desires , so the blame comes down to the fraities of humanity religious or not. My religion teaches me to control those weakneses,
Elechkite 7 months ago
@Elechkite Yes people have used religion specifically as an excuse and I agree that it isn't what made them do it, but I feel you're getting away from the main point that atheism has caused more death than religion which depending on what you call an atheist can be true or false. What the term 'atheist' has become these days has become someone who believes that there is no god, rather than someone who simply doesn't have a religion (sorry if that doesn't make much sense but I'm not sure how els
alvdude 7 months ago
@Elechkite e to put it)
P.S I'm 'atheist' in the sense that I do not have a religion.
alvdude 7 months ago
Who created god? If nothing can exist without being created, than something had to create him. (I'll give you a hint- the things that created god looks a lot like you and me.) Saying god is uncreated is just as plausible as saying energy wasn't created.
etchkid 7 months ago
6. To survive.
7. It comes from billions of years of accumulating information regarding genetic change. Failed DNA died out, hence "survival of the fittest".
8. Because being "good" to each other increases the chances of survival for that species. (allow me to remind you that the old testament shows god to be evil)
9. We are responsible for our deeds.
10. "What" created the "who"?
DaemonAnt 7 months ago
1. Religion has caused more death than Atheism... BY FAR!
2. "Who" is a bad term to use when talking to an Atheist, we believe that "nobody" created the universe.
3. :O I am appalled at your lack of intellect. Because 4.5 billion years and quadrillions of chances lead to a complicated conclusion.
4. There is no "purpose", only life itself.
5. We desire it, because we cannot comprehend the fact that this is our only chance to live and there is nothing more than this.
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DaemonAnt 7 months ago
If you spent any time to understand Physics and biology, then you would not need to pose those questions to Atheists.
Please educate yourselves and then you will realize that religion is nothing but a scam, and misconception.
Allah O asghar. :)D
PersianWiseMan1 7 months ago
1 - couldn't understand you.
2 - Nobody can answer that
3 - "Nature" is a massive subject, encompassing many things.
4 - couldn't understand you
5 - I don't have that desire
6 - We do not know if we were "given" a mind, it wasn't just to worship god because I certainly don't
7 - We "put" the information there when we discovered it very recently. It "evolved", 8 - Why shouldn't there be...why is there a bad side?
9 - We are responsible...but you believe God is in control.
10 - U need subtitles
JoeMahedy41 7 months ago
1/ Religious people are usually to blame.
2/ No creator required. 2(a) Energy is the more basic form.
3/ Emergent phenomena produce complexity. P.S. Learn English Borat.
4/ Pipos of laif is the reproduce.
5/ Not all humans have that sick desire. It stems from poor parenting.
6/ Evolution
7/ DNA is a form of emergent phenomena
8/ Survival advantage to co-operation
9/ We are legally responsible for our deeds
10/ Learn English Borat. The cause is the behavior of matter.
formless777 7 months ago
1. I don't blame religious people, I blame religious people who feel they need to force their religion onto others. Religion has no part in government and always ends in disater. Just look at the middle east.
2. We don't know. The difference bt atheist and religious types are that we do not claim to know. We do not use ancient poetry to claim knowledge of such an unknowable subject. We look to the scientific method for determining what is actual and what is superstion....
mountainmanbear 7 months ago
Those questions have been answered ad nauseum. Sorry but it take a lot more than a YT response or even a video to answer them. Start reading some Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins.
krunk1980 7 months ago
Every one of your questions that asked "Who..." is wrong. That is a logical fallacy called "begging the question". By asking "who", you are making an assumption about the answer, namely that it is a "who".
Assume for a moment that you are wrong and that there is no god. How far could you get asking something like "who created the universe"? The question could not be answered.
MrFungus420 7 months ago
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Completely correct. Borat should be asking "what" not "who". He must first establish an authorship before implying an author.
formless777 7 months ago
7 DNA is a self replicating molecule which is composed of basic amino acids. It has been demonstrated in a lab that amino acids, exposed to radiation, can assemble a double helix DNA structure.
8 We evolved a 'good side' out of a desire to be treated fairly. not from religion.
9 We are responsible for what we do. you can do whatever you want. be prepared to pay for it socially.
10 No one created the cause... if thats what your asking.
My Q to you.
Why religion in the face of science
DaBluedude100 7 months ago
1 b/c your the problem
2 no one created the universe. the big bang yeilded baryons and basic particles. They made hydrogen.
3 evolution in amazing, but simple.
4 Couldnt understand first part. I am alive because a sperm impregnated an egg.
5 Humanity likes worship or faith because we like answers. People took advantage of this urge and created religion.
6 We were not given intelligence, We evolved our perception and brains.
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DaBluedude100 7 months ago
1.if we do it's because we involve ourselves in religious debates and all people tend to finger-point
2. we don't know with material evidence neither dose any religion other than the ink in their books maybe there is a god but how can some just know him and his will but others don't?
3. I'm sorry could you rephrase that please?
4. That also we don't know off instinct is reproduction
5. it's not natural it's just comforting to attribute strange things to a higher power
6.we survived by using it
Hunkisthecoolest 7 months ago
@Hunkisthecoolest 7. it's just in all living things they come together in this way from atoms and energy ect.
8.If you want to get philosophical there isn't just what we say to describe a certain aspect that wants to be helpful
9.personally yes (to me) we don't have a god to fess up to only ourselves and the people around us.
10.The cause behind religion? Well it can be multi purpose keep in mind there are multiple authors motive could all be different motives. there would be more but word limit
Hunkisthecoolest 7 months ago
Questions for Muslims
Why would you follow Mohammed, who could not read or write?
Who had sex with an 11 years old child?
Why do Islamic teachings say it is alright to have sex with farm animals?
Why is it that Islamic teachings say it is alright to have sex with an infant child?
Why are Honor Killings alright?
Why is Islam the fastest growing religion among the criminal minds in our prison system?
Why would you get 72 virgins for killing innocent people?
Would you like a BLT and a beer?
legion1a 8 months ago
@MuslimView
9)Do you really need an answer to that? Off course we are.You receive what you give..you cannot simply go beat someone and expect that he will not beat you or others on his behalf.
10) I didn't understand your 10th question I am sorry.
D3admaus 8 months ago
@MuslimView
6) Again with the 'given' and 'someone put it' can you atleast for a second forget about your magical sky daddy who is not 'universal' for every human as you said.Just go to your local library and go to the biology section and find some books on evolution good luck.
7)Do I really have to repeat myself? Just because you think it is doesn't make it so i find it to be very simple really.
8)Do you think water's good? Yes? Than what do you think of tsunamis?
D3admaus 8 months ago
@MuslimView I am going to continue because i find your questions genuine and not meant to mock.At this point i am thinking that you have to read some books and do some reaserch but nevermind i am bored.
5)That's a really complicated but i will try to cover it.Some things are unexplainable and putting god there to fill in the blanks i see you find very comfortable and easy.Lightning was considered magical and godly why isn't it now? Because of science.Or maybe it's designed to control humans?
D3admaus 8 months ago
@MuslimView1) You are making a bold statement and not backing it up with even a bullshit example.
2) We don't know but you assuming it's a magical sky daddy by saying 'who' amuses me
3)Sophokles 'humans are a measure of everything'.This quote should pretty much answer your question but i am going to continue further.Just because it's complicated to your pea brain doesn't mean it really is.4) What is the purpose of life? By that you mean why does life excist? The purpose of life is to have life.
D3admaus 8 months ago
My question to you in return is: why do you believe in a magical cosmic being? What evidence do you have for the existence of this being?
kubush 8 months ago
The reason why belief in a deity is so wide spread is because people fear death, and to cope with that fear people have invented cosmic beings that look after us and give us life after death.
kubush 8 months ago
@kubush Yes or maybe to fill in the blanks in our small minds or maybe it's all a giant conspiracy designed to control thought.We may never know for sure.
D3admaus 8 months ago
Good questions and glad to hear you are interested in talking about it at all. Kudos to you for that!
godfreelady 8 months ago
Religion is insanity. There, that answer all your questions?
holio84 8 months ago
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1universe even had a beginning,created don't think so2god to make the universe,would have to be more complex3time and energy are forever(us= universe)5god is part of the universe or not,is=us if not just a delusion6pick up a object and drop it,it will fall,play that forever,god wont stop it7god doing the super natural,god could make superman real?8babies all atheist 9god came from nothing,made the whole universe,what would he made everything from himself10EVERYTHING is a delusion all (1)thing
IMINTHEMOMENTRU 8 months ago
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GeoffonTour 9 months ago
*facepalm
gphhawkins 9 months ago
@gphhawkins *Double one.
Doviux09 8 months ago
1. Because 90% of all wars ever fought has been started because of religion.
2. Nobody, who created the creator?
3. Nothing is designed or created.
4. To live, without life there is no meaning of the word purpose.
5. Curiosity, and the compelling need for knowledge.
6. We weren't, evolution.
7. Evolution.
8. Altruism, see below.
9. Yes, there are 6.5 billion reasons why.
10. Who says there was a first cause?
baldurus1 9 months ago 2
I have a question for you, how do you worship allah when the universe was actually created by the flying spaghetti monster?
yelloyo 9 months ago
it will take a century to answer some qustions this guy is asking.
zackzito87 9 months ago
@zackzito87 No.
Doviux09 8 months ago
6) Who says human mind and intelligence were "given", and why?
7) Where does all of the elaborately fancy and often absurd fairy tales come from that are stored within religious texts?
8) Why is there a bad side in our nature?
9) Are religions responsible for religious prosecutions and "holy" wars, causing pain and suffering for millions of people?
10) Cause?... who brainwashed you.
hifiproxy 9 months ago
1) Why do theists usually blame sensible people?
2) Who created god?
3) Why are many religious teachings complex and often contradict each other?
4) What's the purpose of religion(s)?
5) Why does humanity have a desire to study the nature and find out evidences that debunk religion?
hifiproxy 9 months ago
On question 2: The universe wasn't created, it always existed. If God created the universe, then who created God? If God doesn't need a creator, then why does the universe need a creator?
PissedFechtmeister 9 months ago
1. Blame for what?
2. Who says it's a "who" or that the universe was created?
3. What design of creation?
4. Why must there be a "purpose"?
5. It was evolutionarily beneficial to follow tribal leaders, and this evolutionary trait has been superimposed on the ultimate conceptual tribal leader each sect of society could collectively conceive.
6. We weren't "given" either. They evolved.
7. It evolved.
8. Why is there a bad side?
9. Yes--to one another.
10. See above answers.
wuphat 9 months ago
What came first? The chicken or the egg?
grumpyBUBBLEZ 9 months ago
9) Both. Ignoring physical restrictions for the moment, people are capable of performing a wide variety of acts, but are responsible to each other for the consequences of those acts.
10) Again, the assumption of personal agents is both predictable and unfounded. The cosmological argument for a god fails because: a) not all events require causes (see virtual particles), b) an infinite chain of causes is conceivable and plausible, and c) even if it isn't, this "first cause" would require a cause
rpitenor 9 months ago
7) Once the first imperfectly self-replicating molecule (perhaps RNA) formed, the information was a consequence of natural selection of different molecules which survived and reproduced better. Also, either information can arise spontaneously, or the physical properties of things and their locations do not count as information.
8) Cooperative communities early in animal development fared better than lone individuals.
rpitenor 9 months ago
4) There is no objective purpose; even if a god exists, his opinion on the matter, though more easily enforced, is not objective. My purpose is to learn more about the world and then pass that knowledge to future generations.
5) We seek intention in everything, and carrying this too far has had a survival advantage in the past.
6) These things were not given, but simply exist, and the reason they arose is that early hominids who could think and plan gained a substantial advantage.
rpitenor 9 months ago
1) Blame them for what? I don't really blame the people so much as the patterns of thought which lead them uncritically to their brand of theism.
2) "Who" implies something personal, which is an unwarranted assumption. Also, the standard model for the Big Bang is that energy came first, at least after that event.
3) Simple laws can lead to emergent complicated behavior simply due to the amount of energy and matter in the universe and the various forces by which they interact.
rpitenor 9 months ago
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ChildOfTheTeaspoon 9 months ago
lol
leon2343 10 months ago
8. We are social beings. Doing bad things would undermine that, and thus, undermine our survival.
9. Yes, you are responsible for your own actions.
10. What cause?
Charmolution 10 months ago
1. For what?
2. No person created the universe.
3. If you are referring to nature as a whole, simple things become complicated over time.
4. It varies from person to person. Personally, I live for my own happiness and the happiness of those around me.
5. Fucked if I know. I certainly don't.
6. We were not 'given' a mind and intelligence. That is the way we were developed.
7. From the sperm and the ovum that created you.
Charmolution 10 months ago
8) Because individuals have a drive to gather in communities&help each other in order to increase the chances of surviving
9) yes, for we are developed enough to think about consequences.
10) as I said, there is no "who". I would recommend you "The Antichrist" by Nietzsche. Opens eyes.
DieFlacheFaust 10 months ago
1)I blame no one who is free of guilt.
2) There is no "who".
3)As some user said before: simple things become complicated over time.
4) Reproduction, surviving.
5) Because it creates a feeling of safety & someone to blame for misery. to control others and to explain things a human mind can't understand.
6) We were not given, it evolved that way.
7) Evolution over millions of years.
DieFlacheFaust 10 months ago
10) What do you mean by that?
Seriously? The cause?
Titant2 10 months ago
8) Now that is interresting. As we are herd animals we do anything for the greater good for our herd. (Society, country or your town) To make the herd work like a well oiled machine people need boundaries. Therefore we made up good (benifitial to the community) and evil (bad for the community). If everyone would be killing eachother the disease named humanity would stop to be.
9) Yes, for we are individuals.
Titant2 10 months ago
7) Well when a man and a woman love eachother... They make a baby which will have shared genes of the man and the women. I don't know why it is there or how it has come into existance. Again this is a why are we here question and i can tell you that no one knows. Deluding yourself that you do know is foolish. Religious people like to put a claim on the truth. While using no logic to support their claims.
Titant2 10 months ago
4) There is no purpose to life except for being alive. That is all. You will never find out what the purpose is to life. No one will, and making something up and deluding yourself that that story is true is just stupid.
5) Because we are herd animals. We like to follow a leader because most people aren't leaders and don't like to think for themselves.
6) Evolution, some animals have claws or venom. We have a enlarged cranium. Intelligence is our weapon given by nature.
Titant2 10 months ago
1) Religious people are drones. Which will do anything if you can manipulate them properly. See Adolf Hitler, he manipulated the underbelly feelings among catholics to incite hatred against Jews. Religion only brings death and destruction.
2) Who says it was created? We don't have all the answers but 99,99999999% chance it wasn't a god from one of the theists their holy books.
3) Who says it is designed? Maybe it is random?
Titant2 10 months ago
hey MV, how ya doing? 1) i personally don't blame theists for anything in particular, but the skeptic comunity in general tends to be critical of literal interpratations of scripture. i.e. some jews believe that god promised them palistine, this is a problem becaue there is no supporting evedince for this outside of scripture. 2) i don't assume a "who" 3) simple things become more complicated over time. 4) our purposes are subjective, the purpose of life in general is to survive and perpetuate
QuestionReadLearn 10 months ago
@QuestionReadLearn 5) well, i don't, but we all want to understand our existance. 6) we evolved intellgence becaue it is advantageous to our survival. 7) self replicating protiens 8) becaue it helps us survive. 9) yes, we are responsible for our actions. 10) again, i don't assume a "who". thanks for asking, i hope this helps. i also recomend reading "the end of faith" by sam harris. he's got some much better answers than i. the audio book is here on youtube. take it easy.
QuestionReadLearn 10 months ago
Hello, i'm doing good thank you for asking. i hope you are doing good as well.
1) first i must admit that question 1 was too general. what i meant was that, why don't they (Atheists) respect the belief of believers if they want religious people to respect Atheism? EX: why do Atheists usually insult God? 2) why do you think it's not God, while everything we can touch or feel indicates his existence? 3) why? why do things evolve in a systematic way? 4) then why was there life at all?
MuslimView 10 months ago
@MuslimView i am. life is good right now. lets go for #2 1st; while everything that exists is quite amazing, it doesn't indicate god's hand. to say that existance is evidence of god is a flawed arguement because i could use the same arguement to support any view. say, the order we see here is evidence that advanced extraterrestrials must have designed it. imho #3 has always been the best argeument for god. it's not evidence, but it is a great mystery. life does have the appearance of modivation.
QuestionReadLearn 9 months ago
@QuestionReadLearn y do living things become more complicated and strive to survive? there is just not evough information to say y. your guess is as good as mine there. same answer for #4, but y shouldn't there be? i feel that's a bit like saying y should my cat be black as opposed to being any other color. the universe exists. life exists. unfortunatly that's all we can really say about the subject. #1 is complicated. some of it is because the internet allows people to be dicks with anonymity.
QuestionReadLearn 9 months ago
@QuestionReadLearn if u post a video of your baby laughing, every 3rd comment will be "ur baby's ugly. fag." with that out of the way, most athiests value logic in discourse, so we, in general, believe that a course of action needs a reasonable amount of evidence to be taken. it's like my zionism example. jews don't get to have palistine because god promised it in a holy book. that has to be off the table because it cant be proven. beliefs that negatively effect people need to be validated.
QuestionReadLearn 9 months ago
@MuslimView #1 in more detail - I personally don't care whether religious people respect me for my atheism. I don't go out of my way to insult religious people per se, but it does offend me when fruitcakes (endtimers, zionists, twelvers, witch doctors etc) use these fantasies to cause actual harm and misery to actual people.
2,3 and 4 are philosophical questions and none need 'magical sky being' as an answer.
I have a question - Why do you feel the need to believe in a god at all?
GeoffonTour 9 months ago
@MuslimView 1) There is a difference between respecting people and respecting ideas/beliefs. Many ideas and beliefs are wrong and some are just plain stupid and they are unworthy of respect. I do respect the sovereignty of people's minds and they're rights to hold whatever belief they wish. There is no God to insult. 2) Asking "who" is a loaded question. 3) Things don't evolve in any systematic way. They simply follow the laws of nature. 4) We create our own purpose.
kubush 8 months ago
@MuslimView How does everything we see and touch indicate gods existance?
royaldragonfire 7 months ago
@MuslimView 1)we don't insult god, we just find it funny that some people are so adamant that we are wrong about his non-existence.
2)everything we touch or feel indicates we have developed receptors in our skin to detect danger e.g. fire.
3)they evolve as trail and error. the failed evolutions die out.
4)life is merely chemical signals flowing through neural and synaptic pathways.
5)people started worship to explain what is around them. they believed the sun was a god, and the sky a blanket.
Fefedefefessle 6 months ago
@MuslimView 6)we were not given sentience, we developed intelligence to help us communicate with each other, and to outwit nature for our continued existence.
7)Google the HGP. not even science is 100% sure, but we're trying to find out.
8) morality is a social construct. without being kind to one-another our ancestors would have been expelled from groups, and left to fend and die on their own.
9)due to the 'conscience' we have all developed in our sentient mind, we feel mental trauma.
Fefedefefessle 6 months ago
@MuslimView 10) we have one cause as a species. its not mind-blowing. it's not worthy as a response from the great computer in 'hitch-hikers guide'. It's boring, and unbecoming. it is survival. we each live to continue our species.
sorry for all the posts, but i am an atheist, and i figured i would answer your questions logically.
Fefedefefessle 6 months ago
@MuslimView Because in some parts of the world certain racial groups are legally defined as Muslim and it is constitutionally illegal to leave Islam for another religion or to be an atheist.
Example of such a country: Malaysia
Example of such a person: me, an ex-Muslim atheist.
TADahar 5 months ago
lay down your toilet paper based on alredy made religion and open some books! Start with Richand Dawkins!
Alfey 10 months ago
All your questions are answered by the All Powerful Uncaused Alien Being XRSFET, from the planet OYE89 outside this Universe. He created all things. I have never seen him but I feel him in my heart and my faith gives me comfort.
I'm sure you believe me even though I have no evidence to present to you relative to his actual existence except DNA is complex and He is very intelligent and powerful but alas can't be sensed because He's outside our universe.
Ask more question any time.
dimbulb23 10 months ago
These questions show a very fundamental lack of understanding of scientific concepts (On the creation and existence questions). Does not comprehend the idea of eternal state of matter and energy, and is fulfilling confirmation bias over and over again. He also does not understand the gradual accumulation of information through natural selection and other means.
On the moral questions do not disprove atheism. Just because you do not like the morality, doesn't make it false. Subjective morality
AnonymousDivine 10 months ago
dumb questions
omgitsaghiles 10 months ago
I would answer to your questions but I can't fucking understand what you are saying!
tauyupa 10 months ago
Fallacies, fallacies, and more fallacies...oh my!
lagurash 10 months ago
1) Religious people act irrationally and cannot be negotiated with. This is dangerous.
2) What was there before Allah? Who created Allah? I cannot answer your question (yet) and neither can you.
3) The theory of evolution allows for natural appearance of complexity. Read your Darwin.
4) There is no higher purpose. Just because you want there to be a purpose doesn't mean that there one. I create my own purpose.
Andreastij 11 months ago
@Andreastij 5) We do not have a desire to worship. We do however, have a desire to feel protected. And in your case, your imaginary friends requires of you that you worship him.
6) Evolution. To have an advantage over other, stupider species.
7) Evolution...
8) Because being good helps us to survive. I help you, you help me. Dawkins has a nice chapter on altruism in "The God Delusion". Read it.
9) We are responsible to one another. Because what we do to others might be done to us.
Andreastij 11 months ago
@Andreastij 10) There is no cause... Why are you repeating question 4?
Okay, your questions are not evidence of God, by definition questions can never be, answers can. And the answers you think are true come from an imaginary entity for which there is no proof (i.e. they are man-made, just as my answers are). Your questions reveal a great lack of knowledge of especially evolution and biology (but also psychology, philosophy and sociology). I would suggest you read up on this and then PM me.
Andreastij 11 months ago
1. Blame? Who blames you?
2. nobody knows where it came from (yet)
3. billions of years + evolution
4. life itself
5. ignorance, superstition, fearfulness, closemindedness
6. we werent given one, we developed it through millions of years
7. random gene mutations + the survival of the best phenotypes
8. ask a lion, he will eat you and it will be good for him and bad for you, the good/bad thing doesnt really work the same for everyone
9. yes
10. cause? its not an entity, its just a term
MajkeTiTvoje 11 months ago
P.s.: I really recommend you to see 2 youtube animation videos (Open mindness and Critical Thinking) and the 3 Zeitgeist movies. Pay attention to krishnamurti words in zeitgeist films.
jemapele 11 months ago
I think Spirituality is a very good thing. I think the more we evolve, the more Spiritual we will be, though it will be a kind of spirituality based only on truth (even truths that we already don’t know) and that make you “see” in a bigger angle… not a spirituality that shrinks your angle.
We need to Evolve!
Regards ;)
jemapele 11 months ago
If my job was to leader a whole world of people and I have to choose between "insert" religion or don't use it, I surely choose to use religion and have people more satisfied, with fear of doing bad things to each other and being punished by God because of that, and with a more closed mind so they don't think too much and question my power and my rights to try to control them...
jemapele 11 months ago
CONCLUSION
I Hope, by now you have a different view of religion... That's the most important. You may follow Believing, because believe cause good feelings, and because believe is a true feeling, but you have to be aware that Religion is not just what you think you are, and is really based not on critical thinking and also an effective way to control masses. It's the best way....
jemapele 11 months ago
8) Because that good nature help people to be happy (we’re happier if we’re not just egocentric). I think that is that good nature that could make us get some equilibrium in this unbalanced world. The good don’t have to be linked with religion.
9) Yes.
10) (?)
jemapele 11 months ago
7) There’s lot of information about that. You could choose between the easiest way (accept that it is God’s hand), or the hardest (investigate, study)… If you don’t want to do the hardest, you shouldn’t just accept the other hipotesis.
jemapele 11 months ago
5) I think that is our need to love.
6) Science explains it: our evolution form monkeys, the bipodal position that allow us to have our hands free, and to start to create instruments and evolve our brains. There are many documentaries about that. You’re considering we’re the only animal that thinks, and that’s not true. Peter Singer is scientist that talks about it.
jemapele 11 months ago
I think we should do the minimum that we could to achieve that, even if it not happens in our times… Believe in me that it could be much more gratifying to do good to many people, than to do good only for yourself, and that it could be even more gratifying to do good to a healthy and good Community. Believe that if the world could be like that you would really find Happiness. It’s an Utopia, though that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to approximate our world to that. That is made educating
jemapele 11 months ago
4) I think at this moment the purpose of human life should be obtain a better world, a sustainable world with future, not this one. We need to start to be organize and to accept each other, all the countries, all the cultures, all the nations as a community, as a sole organism in a good relation to our home - Earth, a finite place...
jemapele 11 months ago
The miracle of the universe... I just Don't Know and I feel very happy with that :) The most beautiful words to me are those from Socrates, I think you would know. We just should insist in trying to learn more and more in a sustainable way.
jemapele 11 months ago
3 - I think the design of creation is not so complicated. I think it's a miracle... The only one. But to say that it's a miracle doesn't mean it have to be made by an entity. It really doesn't matter. And if it were, you will never be sure so you shouldn't just accept it... The feeling you feel inside you is not just "the answer"... Our mind can do so many beautiful things like that feeling, but is your thought, your feeling, not God...
jemapele 11 months ago
If you have a closed mind, directed to one point, one God, you wouldn't be able to see all the other infinite possibilitys...
jemapele 11 months ago
2) I don't know... The Big Bang theory is the most aceptable theory. Cientists have even recreated the Big Bang at a small scale few years ago. But if it isn't the right theory so we should try to investigate more, not be satisfacted because "someone of my religion told me that it was an God". We have to be open-minded and desire to grow, to know more and more... That's the magic, do not be satisfied. Altough as you see, religion dificults it.
jemapele 11 months ago
1) Because they know their thoughts are stronger once they're based in more solid facts and most of them use a more critical thinking... Because they feel that they should make you "see". However I think they shouldn't be arrogant, and should respect. However you shouldn't discredit all the atheist (and the idea that there is no God) because of the arrongance of some.
jemapele 11 months ago
Because as far as they know that is the way it has always been done around here.”
jemapele 11 months ago
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
jemapele 11 months ago
To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
jemapele 11 months ago
After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
jemapele 11 months ago
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
jemapele 11 months ago
monkey metaphor (based on studies of GR Stephenson in 1967 – “Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys”):
“Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
jemapele 11 months ago
There is absolutely no evidence here for the existence of god.
Even if all of your questions were unanswerable, it does not mean that "god did it" is the only other option.
Therefore, your argument is incredibly invalid.
ElectroHau5Music 11 months ago
4.Sorry, I didn't see the description box. Life in itself has no purpose. It just happened. You may say the chances of it just happening are pretty low, but who are we to say this is the first "try", if you can call something not being done by anyone a try, at life ? And again, low chances don't mean impossibility. But I think you can give yourself a purpose in life. If your purpose is Allah, good for you. Mine are my family, my friends, and I have to admit, melted chocolate. الوداع يا صديقي .
gilless429 11 months ago
10.Like I said in question 2., I don't know. Not knowing how to explain something doesn't mean anything in itself. You cannot rationally explain to me where god came from. Does that mean god doesn't exist ?
Ma'a salama or goodbye.
gilless429 11 months ago
8.Because of evolution, again. We needed to be able to do good things to be accepted by others, to survive, so we evolved into having a good side. Other species have one too. Ever heard of a lioness who nearly died trying to save a baby monkey she had come to love ?
9.Every one is physically able to do nearly whatever he wants, but humans have created courtroooms and judges to ensure boundaries would not be crossed (yeah I know, didn't work out perfectly).
gilless429 11 months ago
5.Because it feels good for humans to have something ruling it from above. Because most humans want a sense of purpose, a way of thinking they would have existed no matter what.
6.Evolution. We needed a mind to survive, and we evolved to have one. Some species didn't and died.
7.No, we don't know someone has to put it there. The mutation of human genom has been proved. We get genes from our ancestors, and evolve by having them adapt. Then again, this has been scientifically proved.
gilless429 11 months ago
1.Because most religions tell us we'll go to some kind of hell for not believing. That is a clear attempt at forcing beliefs on others.
2.I don't know. Wisdom is not to know, but t know you don't know. Socrate. And may I ask a similiar question, where did god come from ?
3.Complexity and low chances are no proof. Low chances don't mean no chances. We never said it would give the same result if the whole thing restarted.
4.Didn't understand what you said, sorry.
gilless429 11 months ago
7) the complex info in the DNA, comes from a large list of mistakes during the duplication of this molecule. actrually , most of DNA (nearly 95%) is useful, scientists haven´t discovered it´s function yet
8) because beings with consciense (like us) can decide what is better to survive, and if it is good or bad, it depends on who is watching
9)absolutely yes
10)is there a cause??
iscycher 11 months ago
@iscycher damn, i wrote "useful", i wanted to write "useless"
sorry for that :D
iscycher 11 months ago
1)because religion is a serius disease in tihis world. Actually religions have caused more damage to the world than us ( crusades, yihads, inquisition, 9 /11 ... etc)
2)the question is how., and for you : who created god then?
3)evolution, it have been a long time since we were a single cell
4)why does life need a porpouse anyway?
5) because it feels alone, and need someone ( or something) who give it support
6) evolution again
iscycher 11 months ago
7) from addition of information through mutative processes.
8) good is subjective, what is good for one person is not good for another. Also, if there is an all powerful, omnibenevolent god, why is there a bad side?
9) we are responsible for what we do, but we are free to try to do anything we want.
10) loaded question, there doesn't need to be a who behind every reaction.
Ye4hBuddy 11 months ago
1) I only blame religion for what it has done (ex. 9-11)
2) There doesn't need to be a "who", and it is theorized that an intersection of other universes supplied us with the energy to have a big bang.
3) Evolution: start simple, mutate through natural selection, get complicated.
4) Why we are alive? mainly because our parents chose to have sex without birth control.
5) humanity doesn't have a desire to worship someone, babies don't worship a god without indoctrination.
6) There's no why.
cont.
Ye4hBuddy 11 months ago
@Ye4hBuddy could´t have answered better the 4th hahaha
17sg71 11 months ago
You really need to go to school and learn about evolution.
SteinUndStahl666 11 months ago
Pretty much every question here is just based on assumptions your family inherited and passed on to you from a book that was written by a person in a time when telescopes and microscopes did not exist. That's why I don't and will not believe what you believe. We know more now, and we assumed things then.
alphaenemy 11 months ago
@muslimview and i bet another reason atheists dnt believe in god is because god wasnt there during the big bang world war 1 world war 2 slavery when innocent people were getting slaughtered by maniacs reply back to my comments with yor opinions on them man take care
TheMustang6001 11 months ago
@muslimview and btw i am a believer in a higher power or some sort of god but i definitely dont believe in these religions, especially the abrahamic reigions as it teaches you false things in their holy books. e.g. the quran says the earth is flat the bible says the earth is only 6000 years old and the torah bible and quran say we came from adam and eve. all these have been proven false and i never took any of those verses from those holy books out of context. i read them carefully.
TheMustang6001 11 months ago
@muslimview atheists simply believe that there isnt a supernatural magical space god who apparently got created out of nowhere. you say someone must have created the universe which is a fair point if you realise someone must have created god too. atheists simply believe that there is more of a chance that atoms and simple elements were formed due to natural selection which later mutiplied and evolved than a sef created magical man in the sky who created te universe and is watching whats goingon
TheMustang6001 11 months ago
1) The same reason people blame anyone. They've done something that means they deserve to be blamed.
2) Nonsensical question. No-one created the universe, because as far as we know without the universe, no-one can exist.
3) There is no 'design'. Design infers an intelligent agency to put it there. (In which case, you would have to ask why that intelligent agency's 'design' is very complicated.)
4) The way you use the word 'purpose' infers a creator - there is no such thing.
5) It doesn't.
Afterthoughtbtw 11 months ago
6) We weren't given anything.
7) The way you use information in the video does not apply to what we know about DNA.
8) Otherwise we would have become extinct millennia ago. Social beings require empathy to survive.
9) Yes. There's a little thing called 'law', among other things.
10) What cause? We know of no such thing. Also, causes do not require creators. They require some sort of causation which may or may not be a being of some sort.
Afterthoughtbtw 11 months ago